in which the impact of twitter on my life is examined, and thanks is given to @ev and @biz

When my friend Sean first told me about Twitter, I just didn't get it. "I already have a blog," I said. "Why would I want to tell anyone where I am or what I'm doing ... and why would anyone care?"

Still, I signed up so I could have an account (I have to do a lot of this "defensive registering" on social networks, which is lame, but a fact of life) and that was that.

I don't know when it exactly happened, but I recall Warren Ellis saying that our friend Rich Stevens used Twitter not just to...